Are you interested in AI-driven virtual agents and how to use #AI to build social #VR worlds for business, education, and health? I'm proposing a panel w/ Bree McEwan Danny Pimentel, PhD 🇨🇴🇩🇴 Dr. Keeping My Old Handle
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🚨 Today is the **last day** to apply for the Post-API conference, happening on Oct 22, 2023 in Philly (following #AOIR2023 , AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] )!!!

CfP: docs.google.com/document/u/3/d…

Post-API Post Conference (AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]) submission deadline is coming up. It is a submission to participate in the moderated discussion sessions with an option to propose a lightening talk. Co-organized w/ Jo(sephine) Lukito Deen Freelon Josh Pasek (Frozen Account)
CFP here:
docs.google.com/document/u/3/d…

So.....anyone have a bluesky invite?

#UofT 's Data Sciences Institute (DSI) has announced a new round of their Data Access Grant competition, which supports multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences.

Learn more here: buff.ly/42xNf2R

We just published this special section of International Journal of Communication on worker resistance in digital capitalism. Edited with michelle phan and Julie Yujie Chen, with 6 great articles on worker struggles across the globe ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc. Open access!

Had a chance to sit down with CP24 and discuss Apple's new headset. (Interview in video at link).

'We've gotten really far; it's just--there's a ways to go!'
The @iccit's Bree McEwan spoke to Global National about Apple's new AR headset technology.
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Happy #PrideMonth , U of T Mississauga!!!!
May we see, hear, cherish, support, and keep each other safe and thriving all year long.
“Everywhere we learn that love is important ... We still hope that love will prevail. We still believe in love’s promise.” (bell hooks, 1999, _All About Love_)

Social Media scholars! Read Deen's thread and then apply to come join us just after AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] this fall. (Application form is in the thread)

“It’s a real problem in terms of the technologies being built into how society works and represents itself.”

BRN Director Beth Coleman shares thoughts on inclusivity and AI with Teen Vogue ✍🏽 buff.ly/3IJB8ZK #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork

Spotted an excellent cat-inclusion at the #ICA23 The Communication & Technology Division of ICA top paper panel.

Looking forward to moderating this session tomorrow in my role at U of T Mississauga's U of T Data Sciences Institute (DSI) associate director.

'Yes, students use technology to cheat, but they also use it to learn, and history has shown us repeatedly that far more students use it to learn than cheat.'

-Andrea L. Guzman

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Inside Higher Ed

Join us for the next session of The Way Forward on May 2, 4-5PM! 'Considering access, ethics and practice of #data in #mobility policies' features beth coleman Gaurav Mittal Dr. Jue Wang & moderator Bree McEwan | Virtual | Free | Details & register: uoft.me/9aa

#ICA23 folks - I'm planning on heading downtown to scope out some things for the next local host newsletter- Conference Survival Guide. What is something you've run into needing at a conference and thought 'WHERE CAN I GET X?' Will also include a variety of coffee shops, etc.